Chapter 72 "Exchange of Equivalent"

Location of the accident:

O-17-FG-Absurd Theater Area, backstage of the Central Grand Theater.

Accident participants:

Protagonist: Shu Mo;

Supporting roles: Captain, pink-haired woman, and mechanical man.

The process of the accident: The captain stood up to resist the unilateral oppression from Shu Mo and tried to defend his dignity and position. The pink-haired woman was assisting him. The mechanical man was hesitant to speak, but he did not dare to speak. The scene was once very chaotic.

Outcome: Failure.

Shu Mo looked at the man in front of him, narrowed his eyes, and issued an ultimatum: "Just tell me whether you want to do it or not."

The captain opened his mouth, wanting to say something. For example, there should be a better solution, this matter He shouldn't be the protagonist of the matter, there is a more suitable candidate, etc., but under the half-smiling expression of the black-haired young man, the captain was silent for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, with a heartbeat, stretched out his hand and held it. received the invitation letter from the opera house.

The cause of all this stems from the latest rules issued by the O-17-FG-Absurd Theater Internal Theater:

[The Theater of Absurdity will be renovated from now on, and the master of the theater, His Majesty Sibus, will issue from now on. The following new rules:

The Theater of Absurdity needs a "Queen". From now on, guests who meet the following requirements can go to the 'Grand Theater' to participate in performances and become the new queen, sharing everything he has with Sibus treasure.

The perfect standards for a "Queen" are as follows:

1. Black hair and green eyes.

2.Male.

3.24 years old, height 182cm.

4. Be kind-hearted and straightforward, have compassion for pollutants, and love to save others.

5. Those with partially mutilated limbs and congenital injuries (the Lord of Absurdity can take care of their daily life)

who meet the above conditions can go directly to the 'Real Place' on the top floor of the Grand Theater to be crowned and become the new queen.

Those who do not meet the above standards, please participate in the 'selection' according to the standards of the Grand Theater. After winning the death game, you can go to see the Lord of Absurdity - Xibs. 】

The moment he saw this invitation letter, Shu Mo was speechless except for being filled with confusion and confusion.

The captain on the side didn't say a word. He stared at the invitation for a long time and didn't see any other words written on it. He just saw two big words written all over the paper: Shu Mo. .

The captain chuckled and said, "You can go over there now, so you can meet your boyfriend?"

Shu Mo raised his face and glanced at him, his eyes making the captain take a step back inexplicably, his eyes slightly He narrowed his eyes and said warily: "Did I say something wrong?"

"Who told you...he is my boyfriend?"

"Oh." The captain nodded, and after thinking about it with his smart brain, he smiled lightly. : "Sorry, it turns out you are already married."

Shu Mo: "..."

Shu Mo didn't want to explain anymore. What's more, after the previous incident, the captain looked at him with greedy eyes. The captain even murmured in a low voice: "You and your husband have such a good relationship."

Shu Mo pressed his fingers harder and rubbed out the invitation letter in his hand. Wrinkle, in the eyes of the captain, he and Greed are already complete adulterers, no, they are sweet lovers in the honeymoon stage. After all, what he does in the eyes of others is to save Greed at all costs, then This almost paranoid feeling moved the captain, and Sibus looked at him as if he was looking at his whole world.

The threat of being beheaded by Shu Mo if he touches Shu Mo is so terrifying that the captain doesn't dare to get too close to Shu Mo now, as if he is afraid that a scythe will suddenly appear in the void. With his own throat cut, the relationship between the two seems to be symbiotic. No matter whether one loses one, the other will fall into an indescribable state of stress and will do anything to find the other.

At that time, Xibusi looked... as if he wanted to kill everyone and completely monopolize Shu Mo. No, that's what he did. From the perspective of a bystander, this kind of emotion is too paranoid and crazy, like a fire that can devour everyone at any time. It will not only hurt others, but also make oneself suffer. .

But Shu Mo seemed to accept it completely and responded in his own way.

The captain was a little moved by this.

Of course, just because he was moved, this was not the main reason why the captain insisted on following Shu Mo. The situation just now was very chaotic. The people in the trial were about to be killed by Xibs's attendants, but the king wearing the crown calmly walked down from the high platform, preparing to greet his queen.

But what no one expected was that

Shu Mo rejected his invitation.

At the moment when everyone was stunned by this, Gary seized the opportunity and used a spell from the trial court to escape with the dying people around him; at the last moment, he originally wanted to reach out and grab Shu Mo and guard him. The guards of the black-haired young man were more like attendants guarding the young man than guards guarding prisoners. Seeing this scene, they were immediately enraged and guarded Shu Mo, but they were all cut off by Gary.

At the last moment, the blond man stretched out his hand towards him. Shu Mo looked at that face, as if he wanted to get closer, but gently shook his head.

Finally, a sigh escaped from the man's lips, and his figure disappeared together with Shu Mo's. Their figures disappeared in the light. He stretched out his hand to hold Shu Mo's Xibs, only to see a picture in place. Shedding snake skin.

It's just that Shu Mo didn't stay with the people in the trial, but was randomly teleported to a place where he didn't even know where he was. So, Shu Mo fell from the air with a confused look on his face, and happened to hit it. He walked into the flowers on the roadside and was surrounded by a bunch of flowers.

The black-haired young man's complexion was pale, and his jet-black hair was stained with a few flower petals. He raised his face and saw laughter coming from the flowers around him. Shu Mo turned around and saw the entire flower bush. The bouquets inside spread towards him, like a group of puppies approaching, whispering while moving around.

'who are you? '

'You smell so good. '

'Touch me. '

'Touch me, I'll touch you first! '

'Me first! ''No, me first! '

While the flowers in the flower bush were fighting for each other, a group of humanoid objects fell from the sky and hit the flowers heavily. The captain stood up slowly. The moment the blue-haired man saw the monster beside him , the first reaction was to draw out the long knife and prepare to meet the enemy. His temperament was sharp and sharp, but the moment he turned around and saw Shu Mo, he was stunned. Then, the captain said: "Are you okay?"

"No, look now. Come on, something will happen to you,"

Shu Mo reminded tactfully. The blue-haired man's dark eyes widened a little. He felt a dark wind blowing behind him, but those flower-shaped monsters were slowly approaching like piranhas. What came out of their mouths was not a chuckle like a child, but a roar like a hungry wolf, with a roar that almost made saliva flow from their mouths.

The captain silently took a step back and saw the flowers whose heads he had flattened slowly raised their bodies and looked at him. The next second, Shu Mo closed his eyes and couldn't bear to see what was happening in front of him: those flowers surrounding the captain. , and then barked wildly, they rushed up around the captain like a pack of hounds and started biting crazily.

The man ran out while struggling and holding his buttocks. He didn't know what those things were crazy about. They stared at his buttocks and bit them. The scene was very embarrassing for a time. Shu Mo behind him slowly walked out of the flowers and looked at the people in front of him. The captain was thinking about countermeasures. The other party had followed him several times in a row. If the captain did not do this intentionally, then there was indeed some fate between him and the captain.

Shu Mo lowered his eyes, covering the look in his green eyes. After repeated training and careful care by the director, Xi, Xi, Greedy and others, Shu Mo was no longer as helpless as he was at the beginning. Knowing, he guessed that the captain either wanted something from him, or he was really following him because of coincidence. Of course, the former idea seemed more reliable. After all, the people in the trial just now didn't care about the captain. It was more like they completely ignored each other's safety and almost attacked the man together.

The relationship between the employees of the Life Factory and the Tribunal is a bit like a dog and its master. As the master, the Tribunal only needs to issue orders. If something goes wrong in the Life Factory, they have to come. Because it is related to the most important thing in the trial now.

Of course, all this has nothing to do with Shu Mo. It doesn't matter how they like to play the master-servant game. Shu Mo glanced at the captain and decided to test his guess. He turned around and was about to leave. Behind him, the captain touched his butt. , and chose to follow in a hurry.

Shu Mo's footsteps paused.

"Why are you following me?" He looked at the people around him suspiciously. The captain was a man who looked very capable, with messy hair, handsome and calm appearance. The captain looked at Shu Mo and heard the black-haired young man say:

"The people from the trial have appeared. No matter what, you should leave now."

There was nothing unusual about the captain's expression. He said: "I am the Life Factory The mercenary is working for them, and the order I received is to assist the laboratory."

Shu Mo narrowed his eyes and looked at him: "So, you are here to protect me?"

The captain said, "Here. I did think so before, but now I feel that it may not be certain who protects whom among the two of us."

The captain said a little modestly. Although Shu Mo can indeed order pollutants, it only depends on personal force. Said that two hundred Shu Mo stacked together may not be enough for the captain to kill for ten minutes. After all, the captain is an S-class mercenary from Life Factory. Of course, this does not mean that Shu Mo is weak. More importantly, he has a hunch. , as long as he gets the pure white crown, Shu Mo's current problem may be solved.

But he couldn't get the crown - because as long as Shu Mo becomes the queen, Greed's biggest desire will be satisfied, and he will completely become Xibs, not Greed.

Things seemed to be in an endless deadlock, and Shu Mo even had a headache. In addition, O-17-FG seemed to have been avoiding him. Every time Shu Mo wanted to forcefully command this pollutant, he suddenly felt a little powerless. If he only faced one of the fifth-level pollutants, Shu Mo could He ordered them, but when all the pollutants in the entire field were faintly resisting, Shu Mo had no choice but to give in.

This made him want to get the crown back even more intensely.

But the problem now is this:

if you want to save greed, you need to get the crown.

Then Shu Mo only needs to become the queen, but as long as Shu Mo becomes the queen, Greed will turn into Xibs.

Shu Mo: "..."

He had nothing to say.

And in this situation, there are also people from the trial office who are the troublemakers who are secretly stirring up trouble. Shu Mo can't help but feel impatient and can't find a countermeasure. O-17-FG-The field of absurd drama is very large. In this completely independent field, it feels like being in another world. Along the way, circus performers are performing in front, and everyone on the roadside The civilians wore dry and worn clothes, and their limbs were more or less mutilated.

They walked to a stall and wanted to buy something. They had no money on them, so they cut off their golden arms and bodies to pay. Here, desire leads to greed, and greed causes people's hearts to rot and their bodies to become golden. After that, people who are afraid of participating in the death game can only choose to use their own limbs in exchange. This is more terrifying than being deformed into a monster, because they will never be able to get back the part of their body that they paid as a bargaining chip.

But they didn't care about it. Shu Mo looked at a man with cloudy eyes, then stretched out his hand and cut off half of his own palm. He held the golden limb and said to the stall owner: "Is this enough? My palms are made of gold, give me what I want!"

The stall owner looked at him without saying anything, and stretched out a long and thin hand like a stick insect from the huge tent. , and like the dry wrist of an old man, after it took the palm, it took off the goods on the stall. The gambler got the chips he wanted as he wished. He was just about to go to the casino to participate in the games. His gradually distorted game suddenly stopped and his voice trembled:

"Why is it so little? It's not enough. It's not enough!"

"You are worth only this."

The gambler turned around, his eyes completely cloudy, His mouth was drooling, and he looked crazy and disgusting. In front of Shu Mo, his body gradually became deformed, and then he roared at the people in the tent: "It's not enough, give it to me!

" It completely transformed into a ferocious monster. Just as he was about to roar into the tent, a hand stretched out again and grabbed it like a bug. The next second, there was a sound similar to something being crushed. Come, only a panicked roar was heard, and then, a brand new row of chips reappeared on the shelf. The color above was just like the gold in the gambler's hands.

The passers-by around him were so accustomed to this that they didn't even react. Shu Mo looked at this scene thoughtfully. At this moment, the director turned around and suddenly saw a familiar figure, a pink-haired female official. She walked through the casino with a plate, and the mechanical brother was following behind her. The security guard had disappeared. Looking at this scene, the captain breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly found that their situation did not look too bad. good.

"It seems your companion is there." Shu Mo turned around and followed the captain's line of sight to see the two figures. Then he saw the pink-haired woman saying something angrily and having a conflict with a guest. .

To be honest, Shu Mo didn't have much feelings for them. Even if the pink-haired girl had a conflict with Greed, in essence, they didn't really do anything to Shu Mo. At most, they were just strangers whom they had met a few times. That’s all.

"Do you want to save them?" Shu Mo said slowly. At this time, he saw the magician in the circus performing magic. The previous magician was cut into two pieces by the audience because of his poor performance skills. Half, is now being carried to the backstage for emergency treatment, so another person puts on his clothes and continues to perform in his place. The audience in the audience does not care about this, as long as the performance is performed by a magician, then no matter who the other person is Either way.

Zebulus said he needed a queen.

As long as there is a queen who can get the crown and hand it to Shu Mo, it doesn't matter who the queen is. What's important is that she must not be Shu Mo himself.

Shu Mo narrowed his eyes and looked at the captain. At that moment, his appearance was almost similar to that of the captain. His expressionless face and indifferent eyes were examining the value of the person in front of him. The captain felt almost instantly. There was an indescribable sense of oppression. The next second, Shu Mo suddenly laughed and said in a gentle tone:

"Come on, let's go take a look."

Captain: "Thank you very much."

Shu Mo walked towards the casino, where several weird-looking guards were standing in front of the pink-haired woman:

" You had a conflict with the guests and lost their chips."

The pink-haired woman clenched her fists and said, "That's them deliberately looking for trouble!"

said the guard on the left.

"You were cheating in the casino, and you were caught by the guests."

The mechanical man glared: "I am a cyborg, and this is my ability! Does it count as cheating if you don't close it?"

The guard on the right said with a trace The emotionless voice said: "After being caught by the guest, you beat the guest and took away his property."

The mechanical man said: "That's because they have no ability!"

After this argument, even if The two people strongly refuted, and the guards also believed that they had disrupted the order and rules of the casino, and decided to punish them: "You should be cut into pieces, and after the gold in your body is dug out, you should be made into casino chips and stay there forever." Here."

"No, Kari, run!"

The pink-haired girl grabbed Kari and tried to escape, but the guards from the casino came up and surrounded them, as if they were trapping a trapped animal. The pink-haired girl was heartbroken. Desperate, but with no intention of surrendering: "Damn it, I'm just saying this won't work."

"If we don't steal other people's bargaining chips, then we will really have to work hard here for the rest of our lives. Do you still think you can pass?" The next death game?" The mechanical man said as he prepared to fight with them. Unfortunately, they never found the captain and didn't know where he went.

One by one, strange-looking guards wearing security uniforms rushed towards them, but the next second, they suddenly stopped. Then, the guards turned their faces and looked in one direction at the same time. The black-haired young man walked slowly He walked over here, ignoring the security mechanism of the casino. Everyone standing in front of him involuntarily gave way. As he walked, Shu Mo squeezed the people in front of him: "Let me, thank you. I We need to go over there."

The guards looked at the black-haired young man in front of them who was much smaller than them, hesitantly stepped out of the way, lowered their heads, and followed him. The pink-haired woman narrowed her eyes and looked at him. The next second, she said in shock, "Shu Mo, captain?!"

"Why are you here?"

The captain walked up to her and signaled the two excited people to stop talking. Shu Mo turned to look at the guards here. The captain asked: "I want to ask you, why are you here?"

"We participated in the death game, and then... we lost."

The pink-haired woman's arms were already golden Transformation, the mechanical man seems normal, but his heart can no longer beat, and he doesn't even know if he is alive.

The two people raised their faces and looked at him, feeling sad for a moment. Even though they didn't say it, the fact that the security guard was not here already made the captain vaguely guess something.

"Okay, I'll take you away."

"If we want to leave here, we must get chips, otherwise we will be torn apart by the casino contract." The pink-haired woman's expression was a little stiff, and she tried her best to smile: "Don't Leave us alone, captain, you go first."

The captain looked at the pink-haired woman and the mechanical man with a gloomy expression. After saying "wait here," he turned around to look for Shu Mo, and then he saw that. The scene of the ferocious guard lowering his head and having his head touched by the young man.

At that moment, not only the captain was dumbfounded, but he couldn't understand it at all even after seeing it several times. The pink-haired woman and the mechanical man beside him were even more stunned. Shu Mo stretched out his hand and touched their bare heads. The guard in front of him shook his head as if to wag his tail. The monsters next to him looked at him eagerly, like dogs lining up in a zoo. The dog looked at his master's hand.

"Shu Mo." The captain came over and called his name softly. Shu Mo didn't look back. He said, "Ah? You got it done so quickly?"

The captain lowered his eyes and said, "I don't have any chips, so I can't bring them." Let them go."

Shu Mo touched his chin: "Then this is a bit difficult. Casino chips seem to be rare. Are you going to grab them, or are you going to trade them with others?"

The captain took a deep breath and asked the fans. The hair girl and the mechanical man came over and said: "I think you can find a way."

Shu Mo: "...You think too highly of me."

Shu Mo stretched out his hand, and the guard next to him squeezed over and lowered his head. After rubbing in front of him, the captain looked at this scene and twitched his eyes: "Shu Mo, as long as you, you can save them, no matter what you ask us to do, we can do it for you." The

pink-haired woman and the mechanical man After looking at each other, although they didn't know what the captain was going to do, they stood up because of their trust in the captain, and then said: "Please, you don't remember the faults of the villain, please help us. "

Yes, from the first time I saw Brother Shu Mo, I felt that you were really talented!" The mechanical man's voice sounded like a compliment, but it was like honey smeared on his lips. The woman stabbed him.

Shu Mo: "Are you selling yourself?"

The captain looked at him, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "We are not actually regular employees of Life Factory."

He said, "Carry, Yana, and I are essentially They are mercenaries from the Life Factory. Our important things are being detained by the people from the Life Factory, so we have to obey their orders."

Shu Mo said, "That's right..."

He slapped the guard on the head with his palm. After patting him, the captain couldn't see his expression and could only hear his own rapidly accelerating heartbeat. He looked at the back of the black-haired young man and saw the man carelessly playing with the monster in front of him, and continued: "I can't believe you. "

We can make a contract."

The captain took a deep breath and said, "After making a contract, you will pay the price if you violate the contract. You can trust me."

Shu Mo did not speak. In fact, he was thinking about one thing: "Actually. I don't need you to do anything."

He said, "But if I ask you to do something very dangerous, and you may even lose your life, are you still willing to do it?"

Shu Mo's words were very straightforward, and it didn't matter. Uncovered, in his opinion, what he wants the captain to do may even be more dangerous than in the casino now. If he doesn't explain this now, problems will arise later.

"You have to think carefully." Shu Mo rubbed his temples and tried his best to imitate Xi's appearance, pretending to be realistic and tired: "Think clearly."

The captain turned his face and looked at them: "I respect your decision."

"You all understand." The captain said to them: "This is also your business." The

pink-haired woman raised her hand and squeezed the thigh of the person next to her. The mechanical man was still racking his brains to think. He whispered: "Hurry up and agree, the captain won't harm us."

"Do it, of course." Karui quickly reacted: "Anyway, if you die early or die late, you will die. If you can live one more day, it's a day!"

Shu Mo: "I didn't really tell you to die!"

Robot Man: "Get ready now."

The pink-haired woman almost fainted from his anger.

Shu Mo sighed, and then he said to the guards in front of him: "Don't hurt them, wait for me here."

The guards made a low muffled sound.

"……obedient."

After the group of monsters looked at each other, they took a step back to show their submission. The pink-haired woman and the mechanical man looked at this scene and couldn't figure out how Shu Mo did it. Shu Mo looked in the direction of the tent and walked towards it. The captain followed, and the two people behind him also wanted to go out. , but were stopped by the guards. Even if they were forcibly taken away before the chips were obtained, they would only die suddenly the moment they stepped out of the casino.

Shu Mo walked to the tent and was about to walk over, but the black-haired young man stopped and lowered his body to look for something. Then, Shu Mo picked up a stone from the ground, which seemed to calm his conscience a little. Comforted, Shu Mo frowned, and then he sat on the seat in front of the tent. After the tent hesitated for a few seconds, a dry and hoarse voice came out:

"Dear... Mr. ■■."

"You ...Do you need me to do anything for you?"

Shu Mo looked at the tent, but there was only a bottomless darkness, and on the counter, the colorful chips and various treasures exuded an alluring light, Shu Mo After Mo observed it for a moment, he locked on the most valuable chip among them, and the value above was: 10,000.

The pink-haired woman and the mechanical man each lost 5,000 chips, which seemed very small, but it was enough to buy their The heart, hands and feet, torso and brain, yes, you can buy them both directly, cut them neatly and put them in the cabinet, and then be bought by others as commodities.

Shu Mo looked at the chip and smiled.

He pointed to the chip and said, "I want this."

"..."

The voice in the tent was silent for a moment.

"Then, you need to pay a lot of price..."

Halfway through its words, Shu Mo had already taken out the stone he had just picked up from the ground in front of it, put it on the table, and signaled that the other party could put it down. The chips are out.

"..."

At this moment, not only the monsters in the tent didn't want to talk, but even the captain behind him felt the air roaring deafeningly. Perhaps he was afraid that a hand would stretch out in the next second and kill them on the spot. After patting him to death, the captain slowly took a step back. Then, he looked at Shu Mo with admiration in his eyes, as if he was saying: You are really awesome, brother.